Brad Nickel

Mission: DeFi

Mission DeFi showcases innovation in the DeFi ecosystem. Our mission is to advance the cause of freedom that decentralized finance & cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and many others represent. Hosted by Brad Nickel with 26 years of experience in tech, startups, & crypto, he interviews and profiles innovative projects, their founders, & provides how-tos for investing in the DeFi ecosystem. Mission: DeFi is presented by Material Indicators(https://materialindicators.com) & Blacknox (https://blacknox.com)

Author

Brad Nickel

Category

Technology

Podcast website

missiondefi.com

Latest episode

Jul 27, 2023

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Episodes

Mission DeFi - EP 36 - Sami Tannir & the team at Redacted are taking ve / Curve wars and rebase tokens to an new level 20.01.2022

The Redacted Cartel took the DeFi world by a storm when they launched just 2 weeks ago with a model to own the Curve/Bribe wars and provide real value to investors and make it easier for protocols. After an amazingly fast acquisition, they are taking bribes in the space to a stellar new level. We talk about the recent downturn for Olympus and the impact on the team, how the idea came about, what t...

Mission DeFi - EP 35 - Ramon Recuero of Babylon Finance is building the investment fund and club management that crypto needs 19.01.2022

Whether the wisdom of the crowd or the power of investing brilliance harness in the mind of one person, Babylon Finance is building a vision of wealth building that Ramon Recuero wants to get to $1 billion per year for members of Babylon's gardens. Now anyone will be able launch their strategies for investing in DeFi in a permissionless way and build a community of people with a common goal. It is...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 65) - January 18, 2022 - OlympusDAO Crash ($OHM), Wonderland ($TIME, $wMEMO), Redacted Cartel ($BTRFLY) 18.01.2022

@OlympusDAO / $OHM after price crash How impacted / changed @Wonderland_fi / $TIME $wMEMO, @redactedcartel $BTRFLY, & other #Rebase projects Market status & much more. Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be con...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 64) - January 14, 2022 17.01.2022

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 63) - January 13, 2022 14.01.2022

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 62) - January 12, 2022 12.01.2022

Never stop learning! In this episode of DeFi Lunch, @zrowgz took the serious analysis he's been doing of @CurveFinance ( $CRV ), @ConvexFinance ( $CVX ) and the #CurveWars & trained all of us on how it works for investors. Also discussed: $FXS $BTRFLY $ALCX $OHM OlympusDAO and $pOHM Alex from Ureka and their Medium post breaking down their new APY model of Relative APY (r-APY) vs the current m...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 61) - January 11, 2022 11.01.2022

Topics: Tesla ($TSLA) accepting $DOGE again $OHM Liquidations @AndreCronjeTech moves on $ve (3,3) @Zerion crosschain bridge We're $Forked club update!  #NFTS on a downtrend, but what is the future? #DAOs for customers @cz_binance is the $96 billion man with a great approach Mainstream gamers talking NFTs Market moves and much much more! Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the da...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 60) - January 10, 2022 11.01.2022

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. Ex-wives and children Dump and some recovery Current market conditions Volatility in DeFi How stimulus funds/cash flow impact economy and crypto Inflation on rent Coping with emotions and meditation Fear of the unknown in markets Stablecoins an...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 59) - January 7, 2022 07.01.2022

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 58) - January 6, 2022 07.01.2022

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 57) - January 5, 2022 05.01.2022

Today: • We're Forked! • $SB @SnowbankDAO making nice moves • $FHM @FantohmDAO looks kinda nice - why • @HectorDAO_HEC #TVL • @OlympusDAO $OHM model • @danielesesta leadership, spat with Bankless, my reply • Year of DAOs • @Jason needs DeFi edu • Advice for leveraging your DeFi knowledge for massive revenue. Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the s...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 56) - January 4, 2022 04.01.2022

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

Mission DeFi - EP 35 - Rob Montgomrey of Revest is reinventing vesting schedules and much more using NFTs 03.01.2022

Vesting is a contentious discussion and decision process for all new projects that take on early investors. What if there was a way for early investors to exit before their lockup period ends without impacting the price of a token. Revest is solving that problem and much more with a powerful platform that locks tokens in NFTs.  That isn't all this project can do though and there are dozens of...

Mission DeFi - EP 34 - Zachary Dash & the BlockZero community are building a better YCombinator for DeFi with an amazing backstory of how they started 31.12.2021

Zachary Dash has an epic tale from working in the sports industry to being a leader of a project in DeFi that is working to change how projects launch and become successful. The story has all the classic startup underpinnings of attempts and failure along with accidental success that grew into a powerful community with powerful ideals. You are going to love listening to this story and more importa...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 55) - December 30, 2021 31.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 54) - December 26 2021 31.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

Mission DeFi - EP 33 - Kevin Tseng of NAOS is bridging tradfi asset lending with DeFi & they have what it takes 23.12.2021

Trillions of dollars traverses asset lending in the traditional finance world and until now there hasn't been a connection to DeFi. Serial entrepreneur and former VC Kevin Tseng has a vision and a platform to bridge those worlds and create a powerful and thriving lending platform along with a massive data play to put DeFi at the forefront of one of the largest markets in the world.  Hear how...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 53) - December 22 2021 22.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 52) - December 21, 2021 22.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 51) - December 17, 2021 - We're Forked Fund 17.12.2021

Today we started discussing our idea for the We're Forked Fund. More to come on this, but essentially an index for investing in OlympusDAO forks. This is an investment club and we won't make any revenue from it, but is just for fun. Do not put more money in this than you can afford to lose. These are the riskiest of investments and we expect that we will lose money on these.  Joe Cawley and B...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 50) - December 16, 2021 16.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 49) - December 15, 2021 16.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

Mission DeFi - EP 32 - GenomesDAO is mapping a decentralized path forward for genetic data privacy & research 16.12.2021

The team at GenomesDAO is working to protect our genetic data while providing a marketplace for anonymized data on chain. It is a powerful model driven by a core team in a multi-billion dollar market that has only just begun. Their impact could be tremendous and they've made a bet on decentralizing everything about their system so that the community can help drive adoption.  Learn why this is...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 48) - December 14, 2021 15.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

DeFi Lunch (Ep 47) - December 13, 2021 15.12.2021

Joe Cawley and Brad Nickel cover the DeFi news of the day, new opportunities in the space including liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and much more. This is not financial advice. Nothing said on the show should be considered financial advice. This is just the opinions of Brad Nickel, Joe Cawley, and our guests. None of us are financial advisors. Trading, participating, yield farming, liquid...

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